ABSTRACT
Poetic representations are able to create evocative and open-ended connections to the data for the researcher, reader, and listener. This kind of creative analytical practice can touch both the cognitive and the sensory, recreate moments of experience, and show another person how it is to feel something, with an economy of words. Poetic representations can be viewed as not-quite poetry or poemish and still accomplish their representational task. The use of such terms is not intended to demean the process and product but rather to liberate and reduce the intimidation of the term poetry for people whose genre habitus does not draw them towards it and who feel they don't have the necessary “literary” skills. The notion of good enough not-quite poetry or poemish is context dependent and what is good enough in one context may not be so in another.
